Introduction Knowing more about patients lets nurses understand what approach would work better in each particular case. Comfort theory developed by Katharine Kolcaba and the quality caring model the author of which is Joanne Duffy present significant ideas in the sphere of patient care. Having been created by professionals with...
Introduction In modern nursing, there are many theories with the help of which practitioners redefine their working approaches and gain a better understanding of care. At the same time, attention should be paid to the possibilities of patients and their responsibilities in healthcare facilities. Dorothea Orem is a famous nursing...
Health professionals should use their competencies to complete family health assessments successfully. This practice empowers them to provide evidence-based support and care to improve patients’ experiences. This paper presents a detailed assessment of an African American nuclear family and a befitting care plan in accordance with the nursing process. Family...
Personal Philosophy of Nursing Reflection Paper Modern nurses have many duties to their patients and society as a whole, and we need to fulfill these duties in accordance with our values and beliefs regarding health and nursing. Various nursing theories seek to support nurses by offering frameworks that could facilitate...
Benefits of CDSSs Drawbacks of CDSSs The implementation of CDSSs reduces the potential risks of medication errors.The determination of accurate medication doses is frequently challenging and particularly critical in emergency situations. Although calculations traditionally involve complex and accurately recalled formulas, mathematical errors may still occur and lead to harmful health...
The case of experiencing the challenge in care was associated with the delay in providing the required treatment for a 68-year-old Chinese woman. After being diagnosed with cardiovascular disease and requiring immediate treatment, a female Chinese patient refused to decide on treatment alternatives until her eldest son arrives from another...
Introduction In the United States, millions of catheters are purchased annually. Intravascular catheters make an indispensable part of modern-day nursing practice, particularly in oncology units. The use of catheters has its inarguable benefits: it provides necessary vascular access for the administration of treatment. However, exposure to intravascular catheterization makes patients...
General Descriptions The title of the article reflects the general focus of the study, which is to evaluate the nurses’ perceptions and experience towards the subject of patient safety and existing protocols to ensure such. The first half of the title highlights the topic of interest, whereas the latter half...
The autonomy of the patients is an essential value in nursing ethics. Despite this fact, it can be unintentionally neglected in some cases. It is especially true for nurses who continuously need to rush from one patient to the other. Moreover, sometimes the named right of all treated people is...
Introduction Transitional nursing could be defined as a set of services used to ensure a safe and accurate transition of patients from one level of health care to another. Hirschman et al. (2015) talk about transitional care as a “nurse-led intervention” (para. 1). This practice is mainly targeted at elderly...
Background of Study The problem of the study completed by Moore et al. (2015) was that a systematic evaluation of studies on how technologies could help practitioners treat pressure ulcers and provide patients with required education. Significance of the current study is highlighted by the idea that the researchers were...
The process of nursing is to be founded on relevant theories, models, and suggestions. Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort and Duffy’s Quality-Caring Model might be perceived as such. A plethora of scholars and recognized healthcare institutions state that these two are proper and relevant concepts to implement in practice. This paper...
Introduction Integrity is one of the core values in life and in nursing practice. Patients count on nurses to make the right decisions and assume responsibility for their actions and all these rest on integrity. In life, people are also expected to be accountable for their actions, which is the...
In most cases, work in medical institutions involves a high level of responsibility and stress. Nurses who start working in these organizations should have strong personal qualities to be able to cope with the workload. However, often, during the first months of work, it turns out that the nurse is...
Case Scenario A thirty-two-year-old female presented in the emergency department (ED) with a headache, ringing in the ears, nausea, fatigue, and blurry vision. The patient claimed he fell from the stairs in her house and lost consciousness for less than a minute. After the incident, he was brought to the...
Introduction The pivotal task of a nursing leader is to build a sustainable environment for high-quality healthcare services. Through continuous self-assessment and enhancement, it is possible to maintain this context effective in meeting patients’ expectations (Porter-O’Grady & Malloch, 2015). The behavior in which I am most competent is celebrating failures,...
Nursing is justly regarded as one of the most honorable professions. Its importance becomes especially obvious in a time of global uncertainty and the need for well-coordinated actions to prevent common health issues, such as hypertension, without exposing patients to the risks of contagious diseases. This paper summarizes my experiences...
The article for the review is titled “Impact of remote patient monitoring on clinical outcomes: an updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials”. The research was done by B. Noah, M. S. Keller, S. Mosadeghi, L. Stein, S. Johl, S. Delshad, V. C. Tashjian, D. Lew, J. T. Kwan, A. Jusufagic,...
The nursing profession is deeply rooted in the ethical values, shared commonly and recognized globally. The assets based on compassion, care, communication, and many others reflect a human and spiritual approach to nursing in each country. Hospital setting, however, makes the core values and the real-life confront. Hence, nurses are...
The clinical problem selected in this case is pressure ulcers among hospitalized patients. Pressure ulcers develop mainly in immobilized patients due to the localized skin injury arising from the damage caused to skin cells due to pressure exerted by when lying down for prolonged periods (Pittman et al., 2015). Therefore,...
The PICOT question seeks to address implementing strategies for preventing stress among nurses working for more than 12 hours a day would lead to a reduction of errors by nurses and improve patient outcomes. The nursing practice problem selected is on errors by nurses due to stress and other related...
The leadership problem under consideration focuses upon Jackie, the nurse manager, who violates her official duties. In particular, she fails to attend the Joint Commission meetings and ignores her subordinates’ requests for advice and support. Moreover, Jackie develops personal relationships with some employees. This problem can be highly detrimental to...
Healthcare reforms in the United States still remain highly emotive. When the current regime took over from the Obama administration, one of the primary goals was to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as the Obamacare (Glied & Adlan, 2017). It was viewed as...
Introduction Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic condition that requires patients to constantly control their blood sugar levels, which leads to significant changes in their lifestyles. The number of people having T2DM is increasing throughout the world, and, according to the predictions of the World Health Organization, in...
Nurses should understand that the family has a vital task in the concern of health support for patients. Functions and roles in the family are crucial in helping every member and offering care that is effective to the health of patients and welfare of the entire household (Preston et al.,...
Abstract Nursing specialists have no significant level of involvement in the process of health policy creation and implementation. Although there are three points of legal influence over any form of health policy, the nursing community is not equally incorporated in all of them. These layers are microsystems, mesosystems, and macrosystems,...
The Definition of Nursing To my mind, nursing is a profession that holds hospitals and clinics together. A nurse is a person that educates and cares for patients, administers medication and manages the process of treatment, provides psychological help, and assists physicians and surgeons. The nurse profession exists because there...
Introduction Employee performance management is essential for the successful operation of any organization, and it is even more critical for healthcare providers. Poor performance among medical professionals can contribute both directly and indirectly to adverse outcomes for patients (Weenink et al., 2017). To perform well means not only carrying out...
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing, which is the core regulatory nursing body in the United States, is comprised of state boards of nursing. These boards have significant authority over the nursing practice as they issue regulations that affect nurses’ scope of practice and standards of conduct. Additionally,...
Introduction It is difficult to imagine modern nursing without Florence Nightingale’s contribution. More than a hundred years after her death, she is still considered one of the most influential people who helped to advance the profession’s development. Many people argue about what she would feel about modern-day nursing. Main body...
It is important for nurses and professionals to think about leadership, especially in times of rapid development and innovation adjustments in healthcare. It is essential for nurses and healthcare professionals to understand the concept of leadership and its influence on their practice. At the same time, it is even more...
Acute shortage of the advanced nurse practitioners in the US requires delegation of the routine tasks by the NPs (nurse practitioners) to assistant personnel. To ensure high quality of health care and minimize the danger of the procedure for the patient, the NP must adhere to strict regulations of the...
In her article, Fawcett (2017) elucidates the topic of existing nursing theories, models, and philosophies. This article is aimed at researching future perspectives of nursing science and possible trends and problematic issues that must be taken into account. The author focuses in particular on the so-called perspective transformation. I believe...
The paper reviews the role of a nurse in a healthcare setting and explains the key notions from theory and practice concerning communication. It provides an overview of such vital items as interprofessional collaboration, communication with colleagues and patients, and nursing education. It stresses the urgency of these topics, supports...
The 21st century is a time of rapid development in the field of nursing. Over the last twenty years, there has been an uneven amount of disease outbreaks, including a Covid-19 pandemic, which has stopped society’s normal functioning for several months (Suleman et al., 2020). Nursing informaticians are also contributing...
The high rate of readmissions after the previous discharge of adult patients is an urgent issue, as the existing ineffective protocols may lead to financial burdens or lethal consequences. Thus, there is a need to identify and eliminate the possible causes. The practically proved solutions to avoiding the readmissions are...
For submission of the research paper, the British Journal of Community Nursing was selected. It is a leading peer-reviewed journal in the UK with 12 issues per year and supplements. The journal contains publications devoted to modern clinical coverage, nursing care-related cases, and research projects. The journal quality and reputation...
The Definition of Nursing The official page of the American Nursing Association (ANA), defines nursing as the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of...
Euthanasia often seems the only option to ease suffering in end-of-life patients. When anesthetics do not appear to have an effect anymore, it is only just to grant the patient his or her wish to die peacefully. This would not only allow patients to die in tranquility but also unburden...
Introduction Florence Nightingale’s integral vision of nursing has inspired many intellectuals to advance theory and practice to achieve the best outcomes for patients’ health. Her global views on human health today are imbued with the United Nations and its Millennium Declaration that proposes the improvement of health and well-being of...
Fishbone Diagram This diagram shows that there are several causes of childhood obesity, the most critical of which are unhealthy lifestyles practiced by many children, a lack of involvement in treatment, ineffective policies, and prevention interventions. There is a need to design and introduce new policies that would guide nurses...
Contemporary nursing is profoundly connected with the application of middle-range theories and frameworks as they allow to enhance the process of caregiving. This paper aims to discuss the Scholarly Project (SP) theme, the approach to its application, and middle-range theories which are employed in support of the project. First of...
Introduction Unique client systems with its characteristics, structure Stressors as disturbing factors of health Normal/flexible line of defense (LOD) Dynamic understanding of patient’s health Internal resistance factors help improve health Three types of prevention: primary, secondary, tertiary Each person’s health is viewed as a dynamic mixture of interdependent factors or...
Introduction Roy’s Adaptation Model (RAM) was created to assist nurses in caregiving for patients. The model’s concepts provide a framework for evaluating focal points in a patient’s environment that influence the individual’s health. Using this evaluation, a nurse can create a set of goals to improve the situation. Roy’s model...
As a nursing manager, I would choose total patient care for my team as a care delivery model. Total patient care is a method of care provision that allocates all the time of one professional to a single patient. This specialist is responsible for the whole treatment process during his...
Pain management is an important part of the work for healthcare professionals. For various reasons, however, implementing theoretical knowledge on the subject into practice in order to improve nursing care proves to be a challenging task. In the article, Tracy and DiNapoli (2012) introduce the theory of integral nursing, which...
The article analyzed in this paper is “Burnout in critical care nurses: A literature review” by Kirstin Epp (2012). The phenomenon of burnout is an issue that can affect anybody in any line of work regardless of occupation, but it is a serious problem for critical care nurses in particular,...
Introduction Nursing care modes are designed to guide nurses to provide a high quality of care through established principles. The better the model is adjusted to the setting in which a nurse is operating, the better health outcomes they may provide. Therefore, there is a necessity for adequate choice and...
The unfolding of My Personal Nursing Philosophy As the field of nursing undergoes constant changes regarding both theoretical and practical knowledge, it has become more crucial than ever to solidify people’s beliefs and convictions about the profession. To me, articulating personal values and defining the roles and focus of practice...
Educational Intervention The population to be discussed in this paper is older adults diagnosed with asthma, who need nursing education regarding the use of medication, inhalers, and lifestyle issues. It is essential to take into account that the mentioned population usually has well-established views and habits, and it is critical...
Nurses are the pillars of the healthcare system in the U.S. because they work at a ground level and bring into life policies that were adopted at other levels. They are the indicator of problems and successes of the system. The better nurses perform, the more coordinated the system is....
Nurses have to be cautious all the time to provide the best treatment possible. To do this, a nurse has to pay attention to every aspect of the patient’s well-being. What creates this focus is awareness – self-awareness, and awareness of surroundings and patient’s state in particular. Thus, a nurse...
My Personal/Professional Strategies to Increase My Power A number of different strategies are required to influence the legislature of the healthcare and nursing effectively. According to Abood (2007), these strategies include entering the legislative arena, understanding the steps of the legislative process, knowing the key players, understanding committees, and communicating...
Introduction In the beginning of the 21st century there emerged a need for a dramatic improvement in the approach to service provision in the sphere of medicine. The invention of patient-centered care philosophy seems to have marked a new era in nursing. It allowed for a whole range of techniques...
Introduction Childhood vaccination is a standing issue in Florida as 6.4% of parents refused to vaccinate their children (Florida Department of Health, 2017). Up to 93% of that number were exempt from vaccination due to religious reasons (Florida Department of Health, 2017). 6.4% of Florida’s population of children under 18...
Definition of Nursing The first nurses who appeared in ancient times were just doctor helpers. They helped with easy tasks and reduced the load on the physician. The modern nursing is very different. The basis for it was created by Florence Nightingale in the 19th century. She described a nurse...
Introduction The vision of nursing among officials and educators has recently changed and become oriented toward continuous education and raising the prestige of the profession through producing skilled and well-rounded professionals with a solid theoretical background (Davis, Taylor, & Reyes, 2014). In light of this, changes will likely occur in...
Nursing is a serious profession that requires plenty of skills. The most important of them are the skills of leading, managing, and following. Basically, leading in nursing is the ability to direct the members of the team, and help them with difficult patients (Yoder-Wise, 2014). Being a good follower also...
The problem of vertical and horizontal workplace violence in nursing has been discussed for decades. It is stated that healthcare specialists are more likely to be subjected to workplace violence than the workers in other sectors. Therefore, healthcare organizations should pay attention to this issue and develop strategies for preventing...
Introduction Conflict resolution process is of great importance due to the fact that it helps restore normal conduct in any work setting, provided the participants react adequately. A hospital can be a highly stressful environment, which affects inter-personal relationships and conflicts can arise rather frequently. Therefore, it is paramount to...
Introduction The goal of every nurse is to establish an excellent quality of care. If patient safety is well understood and more or less tightly linked to hospital policies, patient outcomes are less connected to them. Nurses have a variety of responsibilities pertaining to their duties. In the circumstances of...
Each type of a nursing practice model has a specific target, application, and influence on the patient’s state. It defines not only the skills, knowledge, and expectations of the nurse but also one’s career and ways of professional development. One of the most used approaches is a specialty nursing practice...
Introduction Maternal nursing is a highly important and responsible area of healthcare. It includes both prenatal and postnatal care for women and babies. This care affects medical parent and children conditions as well as a psychological state. It is difficult to overestimate the impact of the parent-child relationship on children’s...
Introduction Florence Nightingale can be considered a legendary figure in the history of medicine. Her efforts in providing proper education for nurses are partially responsible for the way nurses are taught today, while her global approach to medicine is more relevant than it has ever been. Utilizing similar ideas, contributions...
Introduction Implementing a sustainable staffing management system focused on ensuring professionalism and better teamwork is a demanding but necessary task. However, some issues may undermine the process of its execution that may arise six months to a year after the start. To secure the policy’s stable performance over a prolonged...
Direct vs Indirect Care: Introduction The most important part of every health system is the workforce. A lot of health care providers, who have quite a mixed variety of specific responsibilities, are involved in the health care process. Nurses are the largest and one of the most important groups of...
Introduction With the development of civilization, the world became not only more comfortable but also more dangerous. Environmental pollution, the spread of diseases, and various social aspects do not let humanity live happily. If we look back into history, we can notice that troubling concerns were very similar at different...
Obesity: Growing Concern Obesity is a disorder observed among children and adults almost equally. Nowadays, approximately one-third of the US population has serious obesity problems (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). It is characterized by an excessive fat accumulation in a human body with a number of adverse health...
Nursing is continuously developing as a profession, requiring more knowledge and the educational credentials to support it. Nurses are encouraged to study at specialized schools and attain degrees from baccalaureate to the recently introduced doctorate of nursing practice. Furthermore, even after finishing their education, nursing graduates are expected to engage...
Conflict management is a crucial skill that must be mastered by a graduate student during their internship. As nurses have to work side by side with health care professionals, such interdependent work roles contribute to conflict. Therefore, a contemporary nurse should be able to distinguish among conflict types and realize...
Florence Nightingale was a social reformer and foundational philosopher of modern nursing. Nightingale dedicated her career and life to helping the world. Throughout her career, she fought to improve public health service policy. “She advocated for better conditions for women, children and the poor and hungry, including better education for...
A metaparadigm is a core concept that defines a discipline, describing its boundaries and goals. Even though individual occupations and people have different needs and do varying things, they have some shared aims and similar methods as long as they share a metaparadigm. In nursing, four commonly accepted metaparadigms are...
In today’s ever-changing environment, a concept of a fully engaged nursing leader becomes rather meaningful. It incorporates a set of characteristics, each of which is essential and works in combination with others. The fully engaged leader focuses on value-based organizational outcomes, supports care quality, and adjusts leadership styles. The most...
What Is a Pressure Ulcer? Pressure ulcers, or bed sores, are a common problem among immobile patients confined to beds or wheelchairs, especially in intensive care units. These sores result from pressure and friction on the skin or tissues underneath, leading to local damage. Pressure ulcers often reflect the quality...
Introduction Compassion fatigue and burnout are two natural work-related consequences for an oncology nurse. It disrupts the high quality of services which the oncology nurse provides (Barbour, 2016). Hence, it is important to understand the roots of compassion fatigue and burnout as well as general understanding of how it develops....
Program Elements Pay for performance system in nursing implies remuneration provided in response to outstanding care quality. Nursing leaders are often overwhelmed with various tasks and may encounter difficulties with selecting the proper payment method to ensure the most appropriate care services, patient outcomes, and nurse satisfaction. The given case...
The article by Giltinane (2013) contains a comprehensive description of three leadership styles: transactional, transformational, and situational. The author also provides examples of each style and concludes that situational leadership is a preferred approach. The transactional leader tends to build relationships with employees based on a reward/punishment system. If a...
The Doctorate Nurse Practice (DNP) degree supposes a number of essential goals to prepare advanced nurse leaders, among which one might pinpoint the focus on both clinical and systems responsibilities, leadership, and administration. First, the DNP program prepares students for the clinical role that means that the focal attention is...
Case Summary The patient is a 35-year old woman. She has been suffering from rash for a week. The rash is constituted by erythematous plaques scattered across the cheeks and the bridge of the nose. The lesions are itchy and painful. The patient has noted fatigue, fever, and weight loss....
Patient care technologies can be described as the entirety of devices, medical and surgical procedures, and other technical means used in medicine to provide health care. It has significantly advanced over the last decades and has become an important part of the medical industry. Patient care technologies evolved from installing...
Theoretical Framework Roy’s adaptation theory seems to be a suitable theoretical framework for the study. According to Phillips and Harris (2013), Roy’s theory provides an invaluable mechanism of assessment of personal, group, and family adaptation needs. The identified PICO question deals with the comparison of the new status of nurse...
Introduction A nursing care model is a tool with which a patient receives a set of nursing services. A nursing care model establishes major values and policies for a specific facility. Hospitals implement the model which best satisfies their general approach to treatment and patient. All of these models are...
This week, I have completed an interactive case study involving the implementation and practice of human needs nursing theories. The case study was about Juan Duran, a Mexican-American who was prescribed to take insulin injections but was not instructed how to perform them. He arrived at the hospital to ask...
It has been acknowledged that communication with patients is one of the most important aspects of nursing practice. There are effective strategies that can make this kind of communication effective. The use of the patient-centered approach is crucial as patients have different backgrounds, peculiarities, needs, fears, etc. Mulder, Lokhorst, Rutten,...
Information about the Interviewee An interviewees name is Nancy Jackson. She has a Masters degree in nursing. She works as an NP and nurse educator in a local healthcare facility suggesting a nursing training program for individuals who want to enhance their skills and competencies. Her specific area of education...
I want to add some points concerning the role nursing professionals can play in cancer prevention. The role of educators is integrated into nursing practice (Maresso & Hawk, 2016). Nurses should provide recommendations regarding the most effective measures aimed at preventing cancer. Moreover, nursing professionals should apply the scientific approach...
Parse’s Theory: Introduction It is possible to say that nursing care models should consider the reality where people live and directly link nursing practice to individuals’ experiences. Such a holistic approach to nursing contributes to better patient outcomes and aligns with the nursing perspective of Rosemary Parse. I chose to...
The highest responsibility of healthcare professionals is taking care of people and improving their health. However, it is also crucial for medical workers to remember about their own well-being since their health conditions may impact their professional abilities. Thus, it is necessary for all nurses to integrate the premises of...
Major stress factors in nurses Nurses are often exposed to stress due to the peculiarities of their jobs and some features of American healthcare. It has been acknowledged that the workload caused by inappropriate staffing is one of the primary causes of nursing practitioners’ stress and associated health problems. However,...
Self-care is an essential aspect of any nursing as it helps to resolve numerous health problems or even prevent their development by introducing appropriate health practices. The modern healthcare system also accepts the enhanced importance of activities aimed at caring for self as they contribute to better outcomes. Cooperating with...
Self-care is a very important approach to deal with potential health risks. Regular people might apply multiple principles to reduce the chances of different illnesses. This paper’s main goal is to discuss aspects pertinent to the development of a personal health plan. Unhealthy Patterns Many unhealthy habits increase the chances...
Through the BSN program, a nurse receives practical experience in many health care services. However, the ASN program only provides nurses with basic nursing skills and teaches them how to tackle common health problems. The BSN program also provides management and leadership experiences to the nurses, which the ASN program...
Introduction Healthcare is one of the most important topics of discussion in the 21st century. Part of the reason is that a great percentage of the population – especially in the Western world – is aging. There are now many elderly people needing care. On top of that, breakthroughs in...
The value and life of disabled in the community is no difference from the rest of the population. The problems that affect the disabled most are the socio cultural factors that cause the most discomforts. This is due to the fact that the disabled community is seen as an ‘outcast’....
Plan In the introduction part, I will point out that this study is a critique of a journal article written by the above-mentioned authors and was subsequently submitted for publication to the American Journal of Nursing. The said article was published in time for the September 2006 issue of the...
Aseptic technique is a general term that involves the practice of procedures and processes in the care and treatment of patients, by reducing the introduction of micro-organisms to the patients. Asepsis is of two kinds, general asepsis, and surgical asepsis. General asepsis concerns the procedure and processes involved in the...
During a person’s lifetime, he is called upon to make decisions and choices that will have a direct effect on who he is as an individual and how he will interact with people in his daily life. Sometimes, these decisions take us down one path that finds the person leading...
The paper is an analysis of several findings which highlight the issues regarding ESL students in regard to the Nursing Programme. A background has been provided regarding the issues and the rationale behind such issues. At the same time, a relationship has been drawn between that of ESL in nursing...
Abstract This paper investigates the models and standards used by a particular healthcare agency for quality improvements. The findings indicate that the agency has implemented already established options for standards of care, care delivery models, quality improvement, leadership, and evidence-based care. The paper demonstrates that an agency can adopt such...
High-quality community nursing implies caring for people from highly diverse backgrounds who live in many different settings, including prisons, jails, and similar facilities. Healthcare excellence is particularly important in the latter environments because incarcerated individuals often face an extensive list of health risks and have multiple complex health problems. The...
The field of nursing is growing at a fast pace, which means that more consideration and understanding of the given health care sector are needed. Assessment of the patient’s attitude to health requires considerable and specific knowledge in the field of psychology and sociology. A number of issues in nursing...
The availability of affordable health insurance is a major prerequisite for maintaining an adequate level of healthcare access across various populations. The United States does not have a universal healthcare insurance system, whereas private and employer-sponsored forms of insurance dominate the market. Nevertheless, the country has two effective federal programs...